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Frontliners don’t need travel pass, says official
By Fernan Angeles PROVINCE-BASED medical frontliners and employees of industries cleared to operate during the community quarantine are not required to get a travel pass to board Metro Manila-bound passenger buses. Task Force Covid Shield commander Lt. Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar made the clarification amid reports that all passengers boarding buses heading to Metro Manila…
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Police to arrest tricycle drivers not wearing face mask
By John Clifford Lintao THE government’s arm for the strict implementation of public health safety protocols is grinding an axe against tricycle drivers who they claimed have been in wanton disregard of the guidelines designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In coordination with the Philippine National Police (PNP), Joint Task Force COVID Shield ordered…
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DILG deploying police at remittance centers
By Fernan Angeles FOLLOWING reports of crowding at money remittance centers to claim government cash assistance aptly referred to as the Social Amelioration Program, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered the deployment of policemen at remittance centers for the distribution of the second tranche of the government aid . DILG spokesperson…
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Quarantine violators breach 300,000 mark
By Fernan Angeles IF the numbers are to be the gauge of the government’s priority, the contamination may as well be just the second on the government’s list. In a news dispatch, the Joint Task Force Covid reported the apprehension of more than 300,000 quarantine violators since President Rodrigo Duterte imposed strict lockdown protocol on…